Below is the report card for the GM Project of 2016. Some teams did very very well for themselves and some teams did not. There are strong opinions about players and who won what deal but as the dust settles on this year’s project owners regroup and make new plans for the 2017-18 season. Some [...]
The Mets hope to have their four young aces healthy for Opening Day and the entire 2017 season. Since all are expected healthy for Spring Training, let’s grant that at least the first part of the first sentence turns out to be true. Then the question becomes: Who’s the team’s fifth starter? Let’s compare the [...]
It is no surprise at all that Yoenis Cespedes has decided to opt out of his three year deal with the Mets after year one. After all, the whole idea of that option was to allow him to jump back into the free agent pool were he to have a big impressive 2016 season. And [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. Following the Mets’ 2015 NL pennant win and World Series [...]
Congratulations, Cleveland and Chicago! As this is written, game two of the 2016 World Series has just concluded and the Cubs have just squared things up with the Indians. The playoffs so far have been pretty terrific. As happens every year, the rest of us get acquainted with players with whom we may not be [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. The Angels need help. And the help’s not coming [...]
Thursday, October 27 is the 30th anniversary of the Mets' World Series victory over the Boston Red Sox. The Mets had a terrific team that year. Were they perhaps the best National League team ever? Lets take a look. I am limiting this ranking to National League teams because there are subtle differences between the [...]
"Moneyball" was written in 2003 by Michael Lewis. The book was about how general manager Billy Beane used advanced sabermetrics to build the Oakland A’s with a limited budget. Sandy Alderson was Beane’s predecessor in Oakland. When the Mets hired him after the 2010 season, Alderson brought two of Beane’s disciples Paul DePodesta and J.P. [...]
10/31 - 8:30 a.m. Phillies
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. I gave up the St. Louis Cardinals (a team [...]
The World Series is now set with a matchup of the Cubs and Indians, meaning a team that hasn’t won it all since at least 1948 will be champion. For a lot of people that will be the story of the 2016 MLB season. But one thing that perhaps shouldn’t be forgotten is how this [...]
You would think that a team that has reached the postseason two years running would be stable enough so that in mid-October its fans would know who will be playing the majority of the positions in the next season. And, of course, when it comes to the 2017 edition of the New York Mets that [...]